Interviews using Poetry. All questions by Aaron Kent. Longlisted for Saboteur Awards 2017.

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Category: Tom Jenks

Bit off / bite down / yes
direct / a bite at the bitten /
a quarrel / query the bitten /
thumb / thumb the quarrels /
keep the biters / in charge /
charging at / the prone / the
victims of the thumb / of the
crush / of the bitten thumb /
do you bite your thumb /

– Aaron Kent

Answer 4

yes, I bite my thumb at you, sir
and all the other lesser digits:

the one I use to test the wind
the one I use to plug the dykes
the one I use to raise the dead
the one I use for difficult winkles

Anne Boleyn had an extra one
you can see it on her Instagram

and her little lapdog lost in the maze
and all the bright comets painted and wooden

I knew ways to avoid that
deviated septum, to nod at stories
set in Liverpool – how to

kill boredom killing
reality – snorting
yourself to an early grave

– Aaron Kent

Answer 1

the ley line passes over the Mersey
between blue and black recycling bins
the druids in their silver shoes
deep in confidential waste
the tall one works in Quality Save
the middle one is a snookerer
but the little one he is the wise one
you know it by his ceramic gong
he fix your bendy nose with magick
and give you advice with a sugared waffle: